Sample Characteristics:

Setting:

Home palliative care services in London, United Kingdom

Study Design:

The study design was a prospective, observational, comparative (no randomization) between those who accepted the intervention (n = 36) and those who declined the intervention but agreed to data collection in the first wave (n = 37); limitations existed in group assignment.

Measurement Instruments/Methods:

Zarit burden inventory

Palliative outcome scale

Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance scale

Coping responses inventory

General health questionnaire-12

State anxiety scale

Results:

The intervention was not found to affect outcomes for any measures at post-intervention (eight weeks) or follow-up (five months).

Limitations:

The study had no randomization.

Participants had a choice of comparison group.

Little information was given about the training or preparation of the group facilitator.